{"id":28,"date":"2010-11-05T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:31:48","slug":"dare-to-be-different-with-your-screenwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/dare-to-be-different-with-your-screenwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dare to be Different with Your Screenwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have a natural flair for screenwriting, yet you may have struggled to successfully place a script with a studio or agency.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the film industry is many things but fair isn&#8217;t necessarily one of them. This means that being very good at what you do and working hard may not be enough to guarantee you success.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those with a long list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scriptstudio.com\" class=\"bold-text-link\">screenwriting<\/a> triumphs behind them would admit their careers have been blessed with a certain amount of luck. However, there is no reason to believe that this cannot happen for you.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, you should use the competitive nature of the industry to spur you on to produce the best script that you can.<\/p>\n<p>And there are ways to help give your profile a boost.<\/p>\n<p>One of these is to ensure that when you sit down with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scriptstudio.com\/screenwriting\/software\" class=\"bold-text-link\">professional script writing software<\/a>, you try to generate ideas that will get people&#8217;s attention. Many great movies stand out from the crowd because they are different, and have a certain quality that other films lack.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Big Lebowski, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman and Julianne Moore, has become a classic since its release in 1998. And this certainly does not feature a traditional or familiar narrative. What makes it stand out is its distinctive voice. Nobody but Joel and Ethan Coen could have made that film.<\/p>\n<p>So, while it is important to know the traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scriptstudio.com\/joseph-campbell-hero-journey-mythic-structure-monomyth\" class=\"bold-text-link\">rules of story structure<\/a> and techniques when using your <strong>script writing software<\/strong>, you should also be willing to try something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have a natural flair for screenwriting, yet you may have struggled to successfully place a script with a studio or agency. Unfortunately, the film industry is many things but fair isn&#8217;t necessarily one of them. This means that being very good at what you do and working hard may not be enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[14,11,16,15],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-screenwriting-2","tag-screen-writing","tag-screenwriting","tag-script-writing","tag-script-writing-software"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movieoutline.com\/screenwriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}